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SAGE Journal User Guide

Article 1: Morrison, G. Z. (2010). Two separate worlds: Students of color at a predominantly white university. Journal of Black Studies, 40(5), 987-1015.

Summary: In this study, 21 African American, Asian American, and Latino students were interviewed in order to ascertain the nature of their experience as students of color on a small, predominantly White university campus in the northeastern United States.

Questions to consider:

1. How does Morrison discuss the impact of the person of colors experience at a predominately white university?
2. How does “two separate worlds” impact how we function in society?
3. What changes do you propose to help bridge the gap between the two worlds?

Article 2: Soudien, C. (2015). A brief engagement with some conceptual challenges in the discussion about 'race' and racism. Power and Education, 7(2), 143-154.

Summary: At issue in this discussion is a question of knowledge and how those who work in education use the knowledge at their disposal in practice. How do they, firstly, work with the almost universal consensus that ‘race’ as a biological phenomenon has no inherent substance but that its equally almost universal social acceptance makes it real? Having come to their conclusions, secondly, how do they work educationally with the complexity of the ideological positions surrounding their knowledge?

Questions to consider:

1. How does Soudien discuss the universal consensus that ‘race’ as a biological phenomenon has no inherent substance but that its equally almost universal social acceptance makes it real?
2. What does Soudien propose as helpful when working educationally with the complexity of the ideological positions surrounding that knowledge?
3. What is your understanding about the concept of race and how it is demonstrated in our world?

Article 3: Reimers, F. A., & Stabb, S. D. (2015). Class at the intersection of race and gender: A 15-year content analysis. The Counseling Psychologist, 1-28.

Summary: Consistent with psychology’s call to action for an inclusive and intentional focus on social class, this article looks at a content analysis examining class variables relative to race and gender variables in articles over a 15-year period in The Counseling Psychologist and the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Results highlight a recent, significant increase in attention to class issues, as well as the continued need to place class analysis on par with other important diversity variables.

Questions to consider:

1. How does the content analysis of social class related to race and gender variables impact the way we think about our culture today?
2. How do those variables contribute to your thinking about social class?
3. What can you do to expand your understanding of social class, and what attention needs to be given to this topic that will help with increasing an understanding of diversity?